Curling or crimping tongs.



No. 8%;851. PATENTED MAY 26, 190s.

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vAPPLIGMION FILED PEB. 2r, 1907.

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GURLING 0R CRIMPING TONGS.

APPLICATION FILED 113.26.. 1907. 2 SHBETS SHBBT 2.

UNITED s VALENTIN WE'X, or nonies, GERMANY; l

/ I Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application lled. February 26, 190i. Serial oT 359,459.

To alluihom it may concern:

Be 1tv known that I, VALENTIN Wnx,.iti

' zen of Germany, residing Vat Munich, Bavaria, Germany, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Curling or Crimping Tongs; and Ido hereby declare the-'following to be al'ull, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such las will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to 'make and use the same.

Tongs for curling or waving hair in which the one part or :member ol'the tongs is pro` 'vided with several slidingly arranged bars withrib-like, curved teeth and the other part of the tongs is bifurcated insuch a manner that on closinff the tongs the blades or prongs of theforkr will lic on either side ot the bars are already known.

In order to form the sofcalled Marcel waves with such tongs, it isnecessaryto use one hand or a hand combl to hold thelit'ir at the sideduring the 'forward movement of the toothedbars. It iswellknown that toform the Marcel waves the-hair mustbe undulated or waved in twodirections at right angles to cach other, the ridges o'i the waves as Iseen from the side of strand of hair appean ing almost ointed.

` saine hand that held the tongs.

In order then to be able to form suc i Marcel waves with curling,r tongsof the kind desi :'ibed above, Without using,r a hand comb or the like,combs are arranged parallel to the bars on the outer sides of the partof the tongs carrying these bars. Be tween these combs and theneighboring bars the corresponding pronffs or blades of the otheruntootl'ied-lever of the tongs lie when the latter is closed. l

It is indeed already known that iixed side combs may be arranged oncurling tongs practice in the art can forthwith Wave hair with` nehand.

The accompanying drawings'show in Figures 1 to 5 one form ofconstruction of such a pair of curling` tongs, Figs. 6 to l()illustrating a second lorm of construction. Fig. i is a side view, 2 aplan View, and Fig. 4 a sectional view of the closed tongs according tothe 'first oonstructivelorin, Fig. 3 is a side View of the same whenopen, and Fig; 5 a plan view ol the one hah e of the tongs. In F 1g. 6is shown a side elevation of a modified torni or' tongs embodyin myinvention 5 Fig.

1 7 a plan view thereoi; .Fio-y S a cross section oi the'same Fig. 9 asido elevation of the said tongs in open position, and Fig. l() a bottomview of the saine closed.

u According to these drawings the member e of the tongs is provided inboth forms of construction on either side with a fixed combo.

Thes'e combs a constitute the devioe for` holding the hair. Between the.combs a the slides or bars l; are longitudinally rnovably arranged onthe guide rods c, which' slides b may be connected with and shifted'longitudinally by any suitable mechanism." The bars b are provided atcertain proper intervals with projl-ictions in the form of ribs or teethn extending nearly across the whole width of the bars and of which theoperative surfaces receive a'curve corresponding to the curve oil thehair wave it is desired to form.

In the drawings these ribs or teeth n have a bow-like form, so thatviewed from above, as seen in L), 5 and 7, they appear lozenge shaped.In this `form of my device, as well as the modification presented inFigs. ti .to lil, it will be noted that the means or mechanism forshifting or moving the slides longitudinally are mounted on one or theother of the two pivoted members e, fm., of the tongs. y

According to the first form or construction (Figs. l to') the mechanismfor moving the slides b consists of lever ol pivotally secured to the.handle oi the part or member e of the tongs and jointed. to tire arm gwhich latterl is rigidly secured to tlie middle bar l). A lever itrigidly mounted on the axle i and ivoted in lateral bearing pieces ofthe inemer e engages 'in a slot of the arm g. On the axle i are rfurthersecured the crank arms lc connected by means oi links l with the twoouter slides b. The other member m of the tongs is provided with agroovod or llutod cover]7 (see in nerticular Fig, Ll) arranged to incasethe teetir 1i of the slides L) when the tongs are closed the adgioiningedges o these grooves forming ribs or blades which extendV betweentheslides b and between the combs a and the bars b.

In the second form of construction themechanism for moving the barsconsists of a lever or handle d rigidly secured toV one arm of atwo-armed lever o pivotally secured to the part e at p. Theends of thislever o are r linked to the sliding pieces q which are atof the tongsand the tongsI again closed. The

hair now lies in the combs a and on the slides b and is so influenced bythe prongs or blades of the member m that it adapts itself to the curvedsurfaces-of the Yslides b. If now the lever d is pressed, theabove-described connections will cause the middle slide b to moveforward and the two side bars backward, the .teeth n of the slides bengaging with the hair and forcing it to partake of the motion of theslides b," at the same time the hair is held on either side by the combsa. In the second form of construction (Figs. 6' to 10) a; sidewardmovement of the lever d causes the slides b to be shiftedlongitudinallyin opposing directions, the teeth n again forcmg the hairwhich is held at the sides by the combs a to partake of this motion.

'What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszl 1.-In curling or crimping tongs, a member provided with outef longitudinalcombs and a slide arranged between the combs carrying projections, incombination with a second member pivoted thereto having longitudinalblades extending between the slide and the combs, and means mounted onone of the members for shifting the slide longitudinally.

2. In curling or crimping tongs, a member provided with outerlongitudinal combs and slides arrangec'l` between said combs andcarrying projections, in combination with a second member pivotedthereto having blades extending between the slides andA between theslides and the combs, and means mounted on one of the members forshifting the slides longitudinally'in opposite directions with relationto each other.

3. In curling or crimping tongs, a member provided with outerlongitudinal combs and a slide arranged between the combs and formedwith projections, in combination with va second member pivoted theretohaving longitudinal blades extending between the slide and the combs anda cover to extend over the slide, and means for shifting the slidelongitudinally.

4. In curling or crimping tongs, a member provided with outerlongitudinal combs and. slides arranged between said combs and formedwith projections, in combination, with a second member ivoted theretoand having blades, a groove or fluted cover eX tending between theslides and between the slides and the combs, and means for-shifting theslides longitudinally in opposite Adirections with relation toeachother. j

In testimony *whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presenceoftwo Witnesses.

VALENTIN wEX.

